. You must grab on to the connections you make and it helps to have a benefactor," Sharon said. In 2017, she was appointed as the publisher for ELLE Singapore as part of Mediacorps move from print to digital. "Aggressive" and "ambitious" were the words Au used to describe herself. I didn't know what I was doing. Ros L'Esperance Co-Head Global Banking. Apart from Ti Yan Academy, Sharon hopes to start a girls home or shelter, five to ten years down the road. The blazing lights of show business were soon snuffed out right when she blew out the candles on her 30th birthday cake. I know it can go to that stage if you don't have a good support system. Cloud hosting by Vodien. But I wished I hadn't spent so much of my salary on beautifying myself. No. Then we love sharing. Even though Ti Yan is based in Singapore, Au will be running it from Paris. He waited for me to come home. I was put on a pedestal and became too full of myself. Straight lines would now break away to form wavy curves, painted with flowing brush strokes in a riot of bright colours. Sharon Au Reliable workaholic. Yes, Only if Its Forma. Sharon Au is investment director in a private equity firm. It's a milestone and you've worked so hard. Putting up such a front made Au question if she was really that happy all the time, and whether she had lost sight of herself. The next day I told him it's not possible, he told me I had 8 hrs. What impresses me today is her candour. And I could only do that when I physically plucked myself out of a very, very competitive environment.". When she realised telling jokes drew people to her and made her forget about the dreary realities of life, Au started living through that persona. find the elusive answer to that question, she packed her bags once moreonly this timeshe headed to Paris instead of Japan. Despite being thousands of miles apart, Sharon says their mother-daughter relationship has improved since the pandemic. I spoke to [my mum about coming back] and she said 'don't be silly! Sharon Au quits investment director job in Paris after apartment robbed It had gotten to the point where she felt, "Life has no meaning, why not just end it?". Having joined the TCS during the mid-1990s, she won many awards as an artiste with MediaCorp before taking a sabbatical to pursue university education in 2005 on a scholarship. Sharon Au moved to the City of Love in 2018 and had been working as an investment director in a private equity firm.